the words and worlds of John Robinson
Divination is a longstanding Halloween tradition. People used to divine to get a sense of what the upcoming new year held in store for them. Some divination traditions evolved into our modern day party games such as bobbing for apples. Once upon a time it was believed if you placed the apple you bobbed under …
Michael Crichton? Michael Crichton did not write horror. Thrillers, yes. Horror, no. I object. Horror is subjective. It can be argued that most everything is, but what is truly scary, horrifying? How about dinosaurs made in a modern lab with cutting edge technology? What if those dinosaurs escaped and wrecked havoc on humanity? Does a …
Sometimes you just need a good monster story. Enter “Rawhead Rex”. While clearing a field, a farmer uncovers a seal buried in the ground. Removing the stones, he unleashes hell on legs: Rawhead Rex, an ancient being who only knows death and destruction. Rex is a one-demon killing machine. Seeing that he has lost none …
I am an unabashed, and unrepentant, Marilyn Manson fan. I was a high school senior in 1994 when their/his debut disc, Portrait of an American Family, dropped on unsuspecting ears. All these years later we're still together and, like a fine wine, I think we're only getting better with age. This playlist presents some of …
Ingredients 1 tablespoon butter or margarine 1 cup chopped onion 3 eggs 3 cups winter squash, cooked and mashed 1/2 cup milk 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper Custard cups Directions 1. In a medium skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Add …
Frankie Scarlatti is a kid who loves his family and Halloween. One day he falls prey to a couple of bullies, Donald and Louie, at his school. Just for the sheer joy they find in meanness, the two miscreants lock Frankie in the coatroom after class ends. With no way to get free, Frankie settles …
My son is young and doesn't watch much of the spooky stuff. He likes some of the classic Universal Monsters and a few of the Goosebumps books. He does, however, enjoy telling highly imaginative scary stories of his own creation. And I love them. He really gets into it, it's performance art like all the best …
Before you fear that you will not have enough space available at your table, a “Dumb Supper” is not what you may think it is. You don’t invite the people you think, or know, to be intellectually challenged over for dinner. No, you invite the dead. “Dumb” in this instance merely means silent. This is …
Algernon Blackwood had a long list of jobs, including dairy farmer, journalist, model, and bartender. He is most remembered as a writer of some great ghost stories. Scholar S.T. Joshi has stated that Blackwood’s collection, Incredible Adventures, "may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century". Blackwood’s life, itself, was the stuff …
The uptight, skeptical Professor Parkins, of Cambridge, has decided on the little seaside town of Burnstow for a holiday stay. While there, he indulges his love of golf and relaxes among the dunes with the sounds of the crashing waves. Also, he plans to get a bit of work done. One more item on the …
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